The left needs fascists like vampires need blood

The left needs fascists like vampires need blood

The post-Enlightenment West prides itself on having left religious myths behind. Sophisticated people scoff at demons, devils, and other silly superstitions. But ideas that once wore robes and halos simply change costumes. The idea of absolute evil re-emerges in secular form, and fascism plays the part of the devil in our political imagination.Once a movement or person becomes the secular Satan, debate ends and violence begins to look like the o…